At
Bombay Gymkhana from 20th to 22nd January, 2014
Organised by H.R. College Sports Council

Mumbai University
retain title beating Delhi

Defending
champions Mumbai University overcame former champions
Delhi to retain the title, in the All India
Inter-University Squash Championship, organized by H.R.
College Sports Council, at the Bombay Gymkhana.

Puneet Pareek gave Mumbai the perfect start with a 3-1
win over Anshul before Ashray Ohri pulled one back for
Delhi by winning the second tie, in the best-of-five
championship round.

But Mumbai earned victory the
hard way when their star player Shashi Pandey was
stretched all the way into the decider in a gruelling
encounter before he overcame a gallant Utkarsh Kumar
11-9, 11-6, 10-12, 12-14, 14-12 in a pulsating third
tie.

Tushar Kothari sealed victory in the crucial
fourth but not before earning a hard-fought 11-6, 11-8,
11-13, 7-11, 11-4 win over Harshid Muchal that also
stretched into the decider after he enjoyed a
comfortable 2-0 advantage.

Last year’s runners-up
Punjab University who were shocked in the semi-finals by
Delhi, settled for third place with a 3-1 win over Pune
University

University of Mumbai defeated University of
Delhi 3-2 in the final of the all-India inter-university squash men’s team
championship, avenging its defeat in last year’s final at Mumbai against
the same opponent.

The clash ended with a little bitter, but
enthralling match between Mumbai’s Kunwarpal Singh and Delhi’s Varun
Prakash, both of whom arguing constantly with the referee over obstruction
calls.

The final game of the match was one sided
affair as Kunwarpal destroyed Varun 11-3. The first four games were neck
to neck fight. Varun’s tendency to find the tin in tackling balls above
his waist and to go over the side out-lines in playing his lobs, which had
shown itself intermittently till then, cost him heavily.

Delhi had lost the first two matches quite
easily, with Raghav Behl and Prateek Chalia beaten by Laxman Joshi and
Cyrus Vakil.

But Delhi had come back from a similar
situation in winning its semi final against Anna and demonstrated its
bounciness again.

Gunraj Singh began the revival with a 3-1 win over Nitin
Chauhan, and Uday Das prevailed over Arun Sharma.

Mumbai regain varsity crown: By
A Mid Day Correspondent : September 28, 2004

Formidable Mumbai
University expected a strong challenge from arch-rivals Delhi.

Instead, what the former champions got was an easy triumph that helped the
hosts regain the All India Inter University Squash title at the Bombay
Gymkhana glass back courts yesterday. Mumbai, who won a hat-trick of titles from 2000-2002, thrashed defending
champions Delhi 3-0.

“It turned out to be pretty easy,” explained a delighted Mumbai
captain Supreet Singh. “They missed their three top players which made a
big difference to their fortunes. It certainly would have been a close
contest otherwise.”

A depleted Delhi played without key players, Gaurav Nandrajog, Dhruv
Dhawan and Yashvardhan Singh and none in the Mumbai squad were really
tested.

“But I was particularly impressed with Bipin Batra, who played a good
opening game in the final. We also had depth in our team, with the
strongest third, fourth and fifth players. We know each others games and
we came together very well,” revealed Supreet Singh.

For Delhi skipper Prashant Paritosh the disappointment was hard to palate
and it was very transparent.

“As expected, we
reached the final, but we had hoped to give Mumbai a harder time. We
missed our key players very badly. We’ve beaten them in the past and
there was nothing special about this (Mumbai) team,” said Paritosh.

Defending Champions
University of Mumbai claimed their fourth varsity title in a row when they
beat last year’s runners-up University of Delhi 3-1 to retain the
All-India Inter University Squash Tournament crown, at the Bombay
Gymkhana’s glass back courts here on Wednesday.

Kunal
Jani gave Mumbai a jumpstart beating Delhi’s Neerav Tomar 2-9, 9-5, 9-3,
9-4 after dropping the opening game in the first tie. Tomar’s aggressive
play unsettled Jani in the first game to score9-2. Jani struck form in
time and capitalized on Tomar’s poor fitness to give Mumbai the desired
advantage.

Javed Mohammed won the event where he upset the top seed Sashi Pandey of H.R.College in the semifinals and Waqar Pathan from Mithibai College in the Finals. This
tournament was orgainised by ISP in coordination with Mumbai University at
Bombay Gymkhana.